Exhibiting device.



No. 684,755. Patented Oct. l5, l90l. C. A. HAMILTON.

EXHIBITING DEVICE.

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EXHIBlTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,755, dated October 15, 1901.

Application filed. May 11, 1901. Serial No. 59,799. (No model.)

To (all whom it may conceive.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. HAMILTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pana, in the county of Christian and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Exhibiting Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for exhibiting goods in storey-such as lace curtains, draperies, carpets,- and the like; and the object is to provide a device for this purpose that shall be simple in construction and inexpensive and by means of which the goods when not under display are stored or packed in a small space.

I will describe an exhibiting device embodying my invention, and then point out the novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of an exhibiting device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows a brace-post employed. Fig. 3 is a side view of a hanger employed. Fig. 4 is a detail illustrating a form of rod-runner employed. Fig. 5 shows a modified form of rodrunner, and Fig. 6 is an elevation of the operating mechanism employed.

Referring to the drawings, 1 2 designate the supporting rods or wires, designed to be connected at their ends to a ceiling or the like. The portions of the rods or wires, however, between the ends are spaced from the ceiling and are held in parallelism by engaging with the lower ends of posts 3, depending from the ceiling. If found necessary, they may be supported at the center by hangers 4, also attached to the ceiling. Each rod or wire will have near one end a turnbuckle 5, by means of which it may be stretched.

Movable along the rods or wires are bars 6, upon which the material to bedisplayed is placed. The material may be looped over the bars, as indicated in Fig. 1, or it may be otherwise clamped to the bars.

In Figs. 1 and 4 I have shown runners in the form of hooks 7, which engage over the rods or wires, and it will be noted that the hangers 4 are made in hook form, with the bend below the rods or wires, so that said runners may pass through the same. In Fig. 5, however, I have shown a runner in the form of a grooved roller 8, which is journaled on a casing 9, attached to the end of the bars. An operating-rope 10 has one end connected to a loop 11, attached to the first bar of the series, and the other end attached to a loop 12,- also attached to the said bar. This rope passes over a pulley 13, and thence along the device and over a pulley 14. The pulley 13 is supported from the ceiling by means of a hanger, while the pulley 14 is here shown as supported in a frame 15, attached to the ceiling. After passing over the pulley 14 the rope extends around a drum 16, mounted in the frame 15. It will be noted that this drum is a double drum and that the two stretches of the rope are wound reversely on the drum. Thereforeby turning the drum by means of a crank 17 in one direction the several bars supporting the goods will be drawn along toward the pulley 13, so that the goods may be exhibited. When, however, the goods are not to be exhibited, the drum is to be rotated in the reverse direction, when the rope will draw the several bars back toward the pulley 14, the first bar being first moved into engagement with the second bar. Then the two are moved into connection with the third bar, and so on to the end, and therefore it will be seen that the goods on the several bars will be packed closely together. As the pulling strain of the operating-rope is at the longitudinal center, the several bars will be moved Without deflecting or binding at the ends.

The several bars are connected together at the ends by means of flexible cords 18, so that one bar when moved outward or toward the pulley 13 will operate to move the next bar, and so on.

While I have shown the frame 15 as suspended from a ceiling, it is obvious that it may be attached to a floor without departing from the spirit of my invention, or the drum may be attached to a bracket secured to a side wall or post.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An exhibiting device, comprising rods or wires attached at the ends to an overhead drum on which the stretches of the rope are support, bars movable along said rods or wound in opposite directions, substantially wires, flexible connections between the bars, as specified. arope having its ends connected to opposite In testimony whereof I have signed my 5 sides of the first bar of the series and wherename to this specification in the presence of I 5 by the drawing strain will be at the center of two subscribing witnesses.

the bars, a pulley at one end of the device, CHARLES A. HAMILTON. 7 over which one stretch of the rope passes, a Witnesses: pulley at the opposite end of the device, over W. M. TRIBBETT,

IO which both stretches of the rope pass, and a O. J. RANDLE. 

